This is the e-mail I just sent my non-profit & small press teams, sharing in case it’s helpful as a model (and as always, if you’d like to come volunteer with the SLF, we’d love to have you — we’re trying to get organized to better put people on projects now): ***** Hey, everyone. Sorry […]
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I hosted a panel on SF/F nonprofit administration; a lot of people took a lot of notes, which makes me think that it would be good to continue that conversation. I’d like to see it becoming more of a staple at other conventions, but in the meantime, esp. with many people pausing travel, I wonder
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Question — you know that gorgeous animation at the start of Game of Thrones? I adore that. I’m sure it took oodles of people working on it and masses of HBO money to put it together. Now imagine an animation with that kind of feel, but much much simpler — a tall ship, setting off
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Gah! I woke up at 3:15 a.m., mind racing with time-sensitive things I had to do: SLF: • tell Akbar to go ahead and book his plane ticket for the SLF (counting on the community to donate the remainder of the funds to reimburse us for it, which is a little nerve-wracking, but time is
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Folks, the SLF is starting a new project, which hopes to foster more international speculative literature, because we are in desperate need of diverse futurist visions — you’re going to hear a lot more about it a bit down the line, but right now, we’re kickstarting it a bit for a specific recipient, bringing a
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Folks, I have a time-sensitive fundraising request (looking for miles and/or cash). WHAT’S THE NEED? Last year at ICFA, I got to meet a bright young man from Pakistan, Akbar Shahzad, the winner of the Salam Prize for short speculative fiction. We had great conversations, and I’m personally excited to have him working in the
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After the SLF meeting (where Karen, Julia, and I got a surprising amount done — ALL the interviews are now off my computer and on the Google Drive, ready to be edited, so they should start showing up here soon, for one, AND we got started on the illustrator database, AND I publicized the first
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Hey, folks. So we’re having our first official meeting of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s first official chapter this Sunday. (At my house.) Woot! In 2020, Chicago chapter membership will be free; we’d love to get together with other folks (readers, writers, parents, teens, teachers, and more) who love science fiction, fantasy, superheroes, fairy tales, folklore
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I’m super-excited about what’s happening at the Speculative Literature Foundation in 2020; for one, we have two new interns who’ve joined us this semester from UIC, Darius and Emmanuel, both aspiring SF writers and avid SF/F fans. It’s going to be terrific to have them on board. We had a great long meeting on Friday,
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Art contest: Quick reminder that the SLF is running a little art contest — the deadline is 12/20, this Friday! $500 prize; artists retain the original and reproduction rights, and we license the right to feature the piece in 2021. Details are here: http://speculativeliterature.org/call-for-artists/ #slf
